![The Titanic leaving the harbor in Southampton.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelbild-titanic-300x225.jpg)
Swiss on the Titanic
Over a century after her dramatic demise, the Titanic lingers omnipresent in the human imagination. The stories of the Titanic’s Swiss staff and passengers are a rich kaleidoscope into a maritime disaster and an era on the precipice of tremendous change.
![The Palm Court on the Olympic, 1911.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/white-star-steamship-olympic-palm-court-lccn2002721362-300x228.jpg)
![This White Line matchbox advertises the "largest, fastest and most luxurious steamships in the world".](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/rms-olympic-matchbox-ca-300x255.jpg)
![The Titanic shortly before launching in May 1911.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/03-vor-stapellauf-300x231.jpg)
The Titanic’s Swiss staff
![Illustration of the Titanic's à la carte restaurant, which was reserved for wealthy first-class travelers.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/restaurant-titanic-300x177.jpg)
![The Titanic's dining room for second-class guests.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/dining-room-zweite-klasse-300x174.jpg)
![This is how the third-class travellers on the Titanic dined.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/dining-room-dritte-klasse-300x169.jpg)
![Confectioner Gérald Grosclaude, who assisted with breakfast.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/gerald-grosclaude-271x300.jpg)
![Adolf Mattmann, the ice cream maker from Inwil.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/adolf-mattmann-281x300.jpg)
![First class lunch menu from 14 April 1912.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/menukarte-titanic-200x300.jpg)
Titanic’s Swiss passengers
![Max Fröhlicher, who traveled with his family in first class.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/max-frolicher-241x300.jpg)
![The entrepreneur and President of the Swiss Bankers Association Alfons Simonius-Blumer.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/alfons-simonius-228x300.jpg)
![Josefine and Josef Arnold, who wanted to emigrate to America on the Titanic.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/familie-arnold-226x300.jpg)
A night to remember
Animation of the sinking of the Titanic in real time. YouTube
![A group of survivors onboard the Cunard liner Carpathia.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/passagiere-300x160.jpg)
![Albert Wirz's initials can still be identified on his black wallet.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/albert-wirz-300x252.jpg)